conscription (redirected from Military conscription)

con·scrip·tion  (kn-skrpshn)

n.

1. Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.

2. A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.

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conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃən]

n

(Military) compulsory military service

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

conscription - compulsory military service           muster, selective service, draft militarisation, militarization, mobilization, mobilisation - act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops" levy en masse, levy - the act of drafting into military service armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"

Translations

conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃən] N → servicio m militar obligatorio, conscripción f (LAm)

conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃ^ən] n → conscription f

conscription

n → Wehrpflicht f; (= act of conscripting) → Einberufung f; (of army) → Aushebung f

conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃ/ən] n → arruolamento (obbligatorio), coscrizione f